January 26, 2021, 02:34 PM
PHPaulquote:Originally posted by LS1 GTO:quote:Originally posted by PHPaul:
Where's the option of just ignoring the whole thing?
Some managerial types get a wild hair up their ass and see that as someone who's not a team player then make it a life mission to get rid of said someone.
In my working life, I had two jobs that involved companies big enough to have an HR depertment.
One was when Bumblebee Foods bought out the sardine cannery I worked it. It wasn't TOO bad there until they bought into the SAP nightmare. Because I knew how to turn a computer on, I was drafted onto the committee for implementing the Maintenance module. Several meetings with The Big Cheese from California and the "shareholders" from the various factories. Couple of week-long sojourns to Cape May, NJ with a condo on the beach and interminable meetings consisting of endless discussion of minutiae and damned little actual progress. Fortunately, my boss was there as well so all I had to do was keep my mouth shut and nod a lot.
The other was my brief stint as a contract armorer for Lockheed-Martin. Sweet. Baby. Jeebus. Every single week, there was another computer-based training program that had to be completed and it was structured so that you couldn't just click through it and take the end test. You had to sit and watch every video, take every end-of-chapter quiz, cross every "T" and dot every "I". Sexual Harassment. Interpersonal Relationships. Racial Sensitivity Training. Corporate Ethics. etc. ad nauseum Excellent money for stupid easy work but I was actually relieved when the contract was not renewed.